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| July 18, 2014

After the great success of the International Museums Weekends there is another event to put on your calendar and support: Air Ambulance Week, from 27th September to 5th October. It is in support of Air Ambulances around the world and the sterling work they do. For more information and to register your participation, visit The Radio Amateur Events Organisation and click on Air Ambulance Week. Registration is free.

Several countries have announced new or amended amateur allocations recently. The latest news is that amateurs in Andorra have been granted access to frequencies between 5.275 and 5.450MHz. Maximum power is 100W PEP and signal bandwidths must not exceed 3kHz. In Spain, the allocation of six spot frequencies at 5MHz was due to expire at the end of this month. Following representations to the government by the Spanish national amateur radio society, URE, permission has been extended until 30 November 2015. The Spanish allocations do not coincide with the ‘common’ 5MHz channels, so those making contact with Spanish stations are reminded that their transmissions must remain within their own licensed sub-bands.

The results of the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championship have been announced and the overall winner was the United States of America team, who gained an early lead and never looked back. Second was the Slovakian team and Germany came third. Full details of the results are online at www.wrtc2014.org. The British team came tenth with a total of 4158 QSOs and score of 6,008,327. The Americans had 4572 QSOs from which they scored 7,184,844 points. Congratulations to all 59 teams that took part—the lowest score was 3107 QSOs in 24 hours and a score of 3,382,155.

According to the International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System newsletter, the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency has taken action against a number of sports fliers who were using the 144-148MHz amateur band illegally. Agents visited a sports flying site and confiscated a number of transceivers and took legal action against several people.

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